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QUIZ: Which Strategy Should Hospitalists Employ to Reduce the Risk of Opioid Misuse?
April 4, 2016
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Tips for Policy and Procedure Manuals, Along with Roles for NP/PAs
March 31, 2016
Editor’s note: Second in a three-part series. This month continues my list of important issues that help position your hospitalist group for greatest success.
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Care Teams Work Best When Members Have a Voice
March 30, 2016
I stumbled upon an absolutely brilliant TED talk about how we need to forget about the “pecking order” within workplaces and how we need to focus on team social connectedness as a strategy to enhance teamwork and productivity.1 I found the analogy in the presenter’s talk so incredibly poignant for t
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Preventing Patient Falls
March 11, 2016
Patient falls are a national issue, creating costs for every player in the healthcare system. “Patient falls negatively impact patient outcomes, hospital costs, and costs for insurance and health systems,” says Jennifer Hefner, PhD, MPH, lead author of “A Falls Wheel in a Large Academic Medical C
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Revisiting the ‘Key Principles and Characteristics of an Effective Hospital Medicine Group’
March 10, 2016
It has been two years since the “Key Characteristics” was published in the Journal of Hospital Medicine.1 The SHM board of directors envisions the Key Characteristics as a tool to improve the performance of hospital medicine groups (HMGs) and “raise the bar” for the specialty. At SHM’s annual mee
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HM16 Session Analysis: Physician Engagement in Quality Improvement
March 8, 2016
Presenter: Jordan Messler, MD, SHFM Summary: The main objective of this lecture was to understand the culture that often limits physician engagement.
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U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, MD, MBA, Encourages Hospitalists to Lead, Improve Healthcare
March 7, 2016
At #HospMed16 Plenary, the U.S. Surgeon General, Vice Admiral Vivek H. Murthy, MD, MBA, spoke to a standing-room-only crowd about how hospitalists can lead in “Bringing Health to America.” Dr.
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Can Psychology Offer a New Approach to QI?
March 4, 2016
Sound clinical reasoning is the foundation of patient safety, yet discussions of a physician’s raw thinking ability have become a “third rail” in hospitals, according to “Incorporating Metacognition into Morbidity and Mortality Rounds: The Next Frontier in Quality Improvement,” published in the Jour
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QI and Patient Safety: No Longer Just an Elective for Trainees
February 28, 2016
The demand for training in healthcare quality and patient safety, for both medical students and residents, has never been higher.
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Sharing Notes for Better Doctor-Patient Communication
February 26, 2016
Excellent communication between physicians and patients is a crucial element of hospital quality, but it’s also an ongoing challenge for many institutions.
